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baygateways.net

Chesapeake Bay Gateways Network - Your Chesapeake Connection

Page Load Speed

6.7 sec in total

First Response

195 ms

Resources Loaded

5.4 sec

Page Rendered

1.1 sec

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About Website

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The Chesapeake Bay Gateways Network connects you with the Chesapeake Bay's parks, wildlife refuges, maritime museums, historic communities, and water trails. Travel to these sites to explore the Chesa...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Baygateways.net page load time and found that the first response time was 195 ms and then it took 6.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

baygateways.net performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

baygateways.net

195 ms

www.findyourchesapeake.com

999 ms

findyourchesapeake.com

882 ms

app.css

188 ms

signup-form.css

49 ms

Our browser made a total of 68 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Baygateways.net, 44% (30 requests) were made to Findyourchesapeake.com and 32% (22 requests) were made to Staging.chesapeakeexplorer.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.1 sec) relates to the external source Staging.chesapeakeexplorer.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 495.3 kB (7%)

Content Size

6.9 MB

After Optimization

6.4 MB

In fact, the total size of Baygateways.net main page is 6.9 MB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 6.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 62.1 kB

  • Original 76.3 kB
  • After minification 56.6 kB
  • After compression 14.2 kB

HTML content can be minified and compressed by a website’s server. The most efficient way is to compress content using GZIP which reduces data amount travelling through the network between server and browser. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 19.6 kB, which is 26% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 62.1 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 213.2 kB

  • Original 6.5 MB
  • After minification 6.3 MB

Image size optimization can help to speed up a website loading time. The chart above shows the difference between the size before and after optimization. Bay Gateways images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-35%

Potential reduce by 32.0 kB

  • Original 91.2 kB
  • After minification 91.2 kB
  • After compression 59.2 kB

It’s better to minify JavaScript in order to improve website performance. The diagram shows the current total size of all JavaScript files against the prospective JavaScript size after its minification and compression. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 32.0 kB or 35% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 188.1 kB

  • Original 228.7 kB
  • After minification 228.4 kB
  • After compression 40.6 kB

CSS files minification is very important to reduce a web page rendering time. The faster CSS files can load, the earlier a page can be rendered. Baygateways.net needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 188.1 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 4 (7%)

Requests Now

58

After Optimization

54

The browser has sent 58 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Bay Gateways. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Baygateways.net can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and it matches the claimed language. Our system also found out that Baygateways.net main page’s claimed encoding is utf-8. Use of this encoding format is the best practice as the main page visitors from all over the world won’t have any issues with symbol transcription.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Bay Gateways. Lack of Open Graph description can be counter-productive for their social media presence, as such a description allows converting a website homepage (or other pages) into good-looking, rich and well-structured posts, when it is being shared on Facebook and other social media. For example, adding the following code snippet into HTML <head> tag will help to represent this web page correctly in social networks: